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Japanese-Lantern (Alkekengi officinarum)Observer
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Beside a sumac stand.
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Violet-toothed Polypore (Trichaptum biforme)Observer
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Small fungi on a fallen oak branch
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Brittle Cinder (Kretzschmaria deusta)Observer
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Black growth on fallen oak branch
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Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans)Observer
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At the edge of a pond, in a city ravine (Taylor Creek) with lots of Green frogs present.
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Two-spotted Bumble Bee (Bombus bimaculatus)Observer
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In a garden on a city street.
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Red-belted Bumble Bee (Bombus rufocinctus)Observer
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Ignore the other bee on the flower, which I believe to be Agapostemon virescens. This was in an urban area-- in a front garden on a city street.
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This was in a garden, on a sunflower. I believe that these photos show a male (with long antennae) and a female (with shorter antennae) Agile Long-horned bees (Melissodes agilis). At first they are separate, but the male moves toward the female and they briefly interact.
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Unequal Cellophane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)Observer
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Several bees sitting (sleeping?) on pussy willow flowers on a damp, cool morning in early May. Holes in sandy ground nearby.
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Horsetails (Genus Equisetum)Observer
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Looks like a wide bottlebrush. Growing near a creek with ferns nearby.
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Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)Observer
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large conifer in a stand of several similar trees on a ridge - flat leaves with 2 white stripes on underside of leaf blade parallel to mid-vein.
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American Witch-Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)Observer
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Small, sprawling tree with grey bark, and old flowers still attached to twigs
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Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)Observer
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From a tree near a large pond: elliptic-shaped leaf blade, leaf blade is about 20 cm long with smooth margin and short (about 3 cm) leaf stalk
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White Oak (Quercus alba)Observer
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Large, majestic, mature tree with some limbs growing in a curved, twisting manner. Bark at base of tree has long narrow furrows and long narrow ridges, perhaps atypical of white oaks
